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Anonymous wrote:For the ignorant, school choice promotes property value because it's actually beneficial and what people want. Ask Bernie Sanders, he ought to know.

http://www.thevermontstandard.com/2015/10/school-choice-is-a-selling-point-in-real-estate-market/

go away Breitbart troll. until you provide a detailed analysis, using facts, showing how vouchers are going to create more high quality schools in DC, nobody is listening.

Anonymous wrote:It's cute how you guys think you'd qualify for vouchers. Wouldn't it be income based?

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Anonymous wrote:Read this, everyone: https://www.brookings.edu/research/on-negative-effects-of-vouchers/

Increased school choice is probably coming to DC, but we should try to make sure it comes in the form of quality charters, not vouchers.

PP, I have my facts straight. One fact is you're both ill-informed and specious. Don't tell me what's best for my family. I know it's vouchers and not DCPS. If you even have a family in this city, then say what's best for it. But I don't need to be told what's best for my family - and vouchers will allow me freedom to decide versus insensitive District bureaucrats who live in Maryland telling me what's best for my kids actually living in DC.

What's best for your kids could very well be homeschooling or going back to work to pay your own way into private.

I am happy to pay my fair share of taxes to benefit our public schools. Your snowflake getting a subsidized ride at a religious school, no, that is not okay.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, you're poorly informed. DC has a school voucher program that is a miserable failure. Most of the students go to schools that are almost entirely voucher-funded and there is no accredation or accountability process for these voucher schools. The state of these schools is extremely bad. Vouchers will not fix the public education challenges in our city or in our country.

They go to parochial schools that cost less than $10,000, many of which are Blue Ribbon schools where kids learn a great deal in a safe environment. What's wrong with that? PP, you sound like a DCPS troll.

Really? Can you name some since folks on here will be needing to enroll their kids.

Also, you all need to become catholic.

BS, my lying friend

The market will open up to accommodate the voucher amount. Waterside Academy is within the range, and no one gets beat up there. Parochial schools that went out of business will restart. There will be privates that are reasonably priced,and parochials. And no, you don't have to be Catholic to be in a parochial school; sometimes the majority aren't and never become Catholic -> check your prejudice.

DC already has a voucher program and Catholic schools have closed anyway. You are being sold a lie.

Also Catholic schools have been shown to be worse academically than public schools. Let's also not forget how the church allowed children to be abused and then covered it up. http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/10/are-private-schools-worth-it/280693/

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Anonymous wrote:You don't have to become Catholic but you do have to be fine with your kids being taught catholic doctrine and going to church in school.

Indian poster here. I do not mind all this if the overall education is top-notch in Catholic schools, and would enroll my child there in a heartbeat. However, the truth is that the quality of education is the at best the same as a public school and precious instruction time will be wasted learning catholic doctrine and going to church. So, it is not something that will find traction with someone like me who is education focused. I would be more than happy that the people who want to go to Catholic schools using vouchers go there instead of being in public schools.

We are still a democracy and not a military dictatorship or a monarchy. This too shall pass in 4 years. However, my kids need to be well educated and be strong in all subjects, sports, extracurricular activities etc during these 4 years. So, we will continue to do what we have been doing all this while.

I have a kid in Catholic school. The school he attends has a longer day just FYI. He's in school 7 hours a day rather than 6 hours 25 minutes that our school district allows.

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Anonymous wrote:You don't have to become Catholic but you do have to be fine with your kids being taught catholic doctrine and going to church in school.

Indian poster here. I do not mind all this if the overall education is top-notch in Catholic schools, and would enroll my child there in a heartbeat. However, the truth is that the quality of education is the at best the same as a public school and precious instruction time will be wasted learning catholic doctrine and going to church. So, it is not something that will find traction with someone like me who is education focused. I would be more than happy that the people who want to go to Catholic schools using vouchers go there instead of being in public schools.

We are still a democracy and not a military dictatorship or a monarchy. This too shall pass in 4 years. However, my kids need to be well educated and be strong in all subjects, sports, extracurricular activities etc during these 4 years. So, we will continue to do what we have been doing all this while.

I have a kid in Catholic school. The school he attends has a longer day just FYI. He's in school 7 hours a day rather than 6 hours 25 minutes that our school district allows.

Anonymous wrote:Indian poster again. I am fine with Islamic, Jewish, Buddhist and Hindu schools too. The more the merrier. The main point is that schools and curriculum in general suck here for K-12. Then people will bitch about that international students are being enrolled in the colleges and universities here. Well, duh! They are prepared and we are not.

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Anonymous wrote:You don't have to become Catholic but you do have to be fine with your kids being taught catholic doctrine and going to church in school.

Indian poster here. I do not mind all this if the overall education is top-notch in Catholic schools, and would enroll my child there in a heartbeat. However, the truth is that the quality of education is the at best the same as a public school and precious instruction time will be wasted learning catholic doctrine and going to church. So, it is not something that will find traction with someone like me who is education focused. I would be more than happy that the people who want to go to Catholic schools using vouchers go there instead of being in public schools.

We are still a democracy and not a military dictatorship or a monarchy. This too shall pass in 4 years. However, my kids need to be well educated and be strong in all subjects, sports, extracurricular activities etc during these 4 years. So, we will continue to do what we have been doing all this while.

Anonymous wrote:For the ignorant, school choice promotes property value because it's actually beneficial and what people want. Ask Bernie Sanders, he ought to know.

http://www.thevermontstandard.com/2015/10/school-choice-is-a-selling-point-in-real-estate-market/

Anonymous wrote:DeVos as Sec of Ed is the Republican and Trump strategy to keep the electorate un- or under-educated to help these fools get re-elected. It's not so much the economic divide that determined whether you voted for Trump or Clinton. It's the educational divide. The most uneducated counties voted overwhelmingly for Trump. It behooves the Republican party to dismantle public education.

Anonymous wrote:Read this, everyone: https://www.brookings.edu/research/on-negative-effects-of-vouchers/

Increased school choice is probably coming to DC, but we should try to make sure it comes in the form of quality charters, not vouchers.

Anonymous wrote:^^^^ DCPS troll.